Principal Eng, V&V

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Job Title:  Principal Engineer – Software Verification & Validation

Job Description:

Baxter has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney ailments. This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the verification, validation and support of Baxter’s medical device software that is related to our connected medicine strategy. The software will support home based renal therapy through IoT connectivity. The software will support management of medical treatments at home/clinics and also enable supply chain handling for the various medical treatments.  As a Verification lead for Renal Care domain, you will drive the strategy for software product verification and at the high level, design, develop, execute and maintain automation test frameworks, tools and test cases that can validate overall quality & scalability of our software products. You are expected to have industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly improve product quality and ensure a successful release to customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to effectively define, communicate and execute test strategies to ensure product quality and delivery are maintained.
• Lead and collaborate with verification team to drive improvements to test execution, quality and delivery.
• Strategize, design & develop test architecture and test framework for new and legacy applications using enterprise stack.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain test automation for functional, performance, security and reliability testing on multiple application platforms.
• Perform code reviews to improve the quality of the test code base and optimize its execution.
• Develop new capabilities and features for automated tests.
• Interact with cross-functional team members to develop and refine test strategy, design and execution.
• Lead the development and documentation of the product test architecture and test strategy.
• Plan and execute system integration activities to minimize issues in systems verification.
• Contribute to design and development of test cases, test scripts, defect reports and traceability matrix.
• Review work products including test plans, test cases, test data and automated test scripts.
• Contribute to efficiency improvements within the V&V function.
• Play a front ending role in ISO audits and quality reviews.
• Establish traceability of verification artifacts to requirements.
• Drive simplification and process optimization initiatives across the function.
• Develop and maintain an effective and corroborative working relationship with internal and external development partners. 

Qualifications:

• A demonstrated track record in regulated software development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as aviation software.
• Experience leading medium to large V&V teams.
• Experience in defining and executing verification strategies including functional, non-functional, reliability and performance.
• Working knowledge of enterprise or embedded software architecture nuances.
• Hands on experience with software test automation tools.
• Experience in building/enhancing test automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of medical device software development & verification is highly preferred including knowledge of standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and demonstrated superior collaboration with stakeholders.
• Ability to lead small to medium sized team technically and raising his/her own performance and others from time to time.
• Demonstrated risk taking ability and challenges status quo.

Background and/or Experience:

Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communications or related field with 12-15 years of related work experience.

Reasonable Accommodations

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